News and Press Releases of DIW Berlin https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.618106.en/news.html News and Press Releases en https://www.diw.de/sixcms/media.php/37/diw_logo_farbe_mini.jpg DIW Berlin https://diw.de/ SOEP Annual Report 2024: people, projects, and publications http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.956627.en ]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:47:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.956627.en Researcher (f/m/x) http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.956590.en The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a research-driven infrastructure based at DIW Berlin, is one of the largest and longest running multidisciplinary panel studies worldwide, and currently surveys around 30,000 people in nearly 15,000 households. SOEP aims to capture social change and thus handles a constant stream of new and diverse topics and tasks. Its data collection and generation adhere to the concept of the survey or data life cycle.
Within the SOEP, the ERC-funded project WEALTHTRAJECT, led by Philipp Lersch, will comprehensively and systematically investigate diversity in long-term wealth accumulation trajectories within and between social groups. The project breaks new ground by combining longitudinal data from surveys and registers with new biographical data on wealth, making it possible for the first time to map wealth trajectories over more extendedperiods of people’s lives. One objective of the project is to establish the intergenerational relationships between family background and wealth accumulation trajectories.
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Martin Kittel has successfully defended his dissertation http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.947575.en ]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:16:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.947575.en Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.947050.en ]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:50:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.947050.en The #ManyDaughters Study is Officially Kicking Off! http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.946227.en ]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:32:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.946227.en Joint Economic Forecast Spring 2025: Geopolitical turn intensifies crisis – structural reforms even more urgent http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.945872.en ]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:29:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.945872.en Trump’s tariffs: What escalating trade tensions with the US imply for EU exporters and supply chains http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.944593.en US trade policy has taken a sharp turn away from multilateralism, with sweeping new tariffs posing a serious threat to global supply chains. As the US remains the EU’s largest export market for goods, these measures carry significant repercussions for the bloc. Exports to the US are heavily reliant on a small number of companies and high-value business relationships—making the EU particularly vulnerable to targeted trade measures. In Germany, the top ten business relationships alone account for a fifth of maritime exports to the US. Intra-company trade also plays a crucial role: One quarter of automotive exports from Germany to the US is between business entities with clear common ownership. Simulations further suggest that a transatlantic tariff conflict would halve EU exports to the US and trigger widespread production losses, with Germany’s GDP contracting by approximately 0.33% in the long term. To limit these economic damages and build long-term resilience, the EU should accelerate its export diversification by deepening trade ties with Free Trade Agreement partners and enhancing integration within the single market.


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Ukrainian refugees in Germany: participation is growing, but many hurdles remain http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.938930.en ]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.938930.en Marcel Fratzscher: „The next federal government needs courage and honesty“ http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.937881.en Following yesterday's Bundestag elections, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher commented on the results and the challenges facing the new German government:

Germany‘s federal election marks a turning point. The Social Democrats are the biggest loser, and even though the Conservatives have emerged as the election winner, they have performed remarkably poorly. As a result, their coalition could struggle to push through a bold and urgently needed reform agenda. Economic decline, social polarization, and the continued rise of the rightwing extremist AfD would be the inevitable outcome.  

The potential coalition partners should now put their feuds aside and get to work on the coalition agreement. In a world of escalating crises, Germany must finally break free from its political and economic paralysis.  

A new federal government should set three major priorities. First, it must regain the lost trust and offer citizens and businesses a clear perspective for the future. The new government needs courage and honesty because the next four years will be tough for Germany and the most difficult of the last 75 years.

Above all, businesses in the industrial sector, but also citizens, will have to prepare for sacrifice and hardship. The transformation of the economy and society means change, and inevitably there will be losers. Secondly, the new government should prioritize an investment offensive, focusing both on infrastructure, innovation, and education, as well as defense. It should avoid dogmatic disputes and finance investments pragmatically through special assets, as a meaningful reform of the debt brake is likely impossible.  

As a third priority, the new government must radically change its course on Europe. Germany will only be able to safeguard its own interests as part of a strong and united Europe. Germany must not continue to weaken Europe, as some parties called for during the election campaign. Instead, we need a primarily common European approach on defense, the internal market, innovation, and competitiveness.
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Virginia Sondergeld has successfully defended her dissertation http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.935670.en ]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:39:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.935670.en The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available! http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.929542.en ]]> Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:05:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.929542.en The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available! http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.929424.en The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals but also at all other adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), led in cooperation by the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and implemented by the survey institute infas.

The SCP 2021/22 W1:

The dataset "German Social Cohesion Panel 2021/22 – Wave 1" (DOI: 10.60532/scp.2021_22.w1.v1) includes survey data and generated indicators of the first and second part of the first panel wave. It contains responses from 13,053 household anchor persons drawn from population registers and from 3,974 adult household members who were named by the anchor persons and subsequently interviewed.

Data Access:

The SCP can be ordered at the RISC Research Data Centre (RDC-RISC) by all post-doctoral researchers affiliated with a scientific institution. For that purpose, please set up a data user account at https://fgz-risc-data.de/en/registration if not yet done. You can use this account in the future to order all Scientific Use Files available at the RDC-RISC.

Account holders (primary users) may share the data with researchers under their supervision (secondary users). Secondary users must be listed in the primary user's data user account and must sign a privacy policy, which must be archived by the primary user.

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Any Questions concerning our PhD Program? http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.928541.en ]]> Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:56:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.928541.en “Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.924156.en ]]> Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.924156.en SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.923356.en ]]> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:07:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.923356.en SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.923348.en ]]> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:01:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.923348.en Applications are now open for the PhD Program intake of 2025 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.918142.en ]]> Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:15:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.918142.en Johannes Seebauer has successfully defended his dissertation http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.928187.en ]]> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:37:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.928187.en Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.917673.en ]]> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:37:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.917673.en Mats Kröger has successfully defended his dissertation http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.917663.en ]]> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:31:00 +0200 http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.917663.en